The School for Good and Evil
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4.5 • 128 Ratings
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- £2.99
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Publisher Description
THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL is now a major motion picture from Netflix, starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, and many more!
A dark and enchanting fantasy adventure for those who prefer fairytales with a twist. The first in the bestselling series.
Every four years, two girls are kidnapped from the village of Gavaldon. Legend has it these lost children are sent to the School for Good and Evil, the fabled institution where they become fairytale heroes or villains.
With her glass slippers and devotion to good deeds, Sophie knows she'll join the ranks of past students like Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White at the School for Good. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black dresses and wicked black cat, seems a natural fit for the villains in the School for Evil.
But the two girls soon find their fortunes reversed – Sophie's dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School for Good, thrust among handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication.
But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are?
Reviews
“Amazing!!! Brilliant!!! PERFECTO!!! Mindblowing!!! Love it. Absolutely LOVE it.” Ava
“This book is amazing!! It really kept me up all night and I could not wait to finish it! GO AND READ IT. SERIOUSLY. GO, GO, GO!” Anna, Goodreads
About the author
Soman Chainani belives in fairy tales even more than the children of Gavaldon do. While studying at Harvard, he practically created his own ‘fairy tale’ major and wrote his thesis on why evil women make such irresistible fairy-tale villains.
Soman is also an acclaimed screenwriter, whose films have played at more than 150 film festivals around the world, winning more than 30 jury and audience prizes.
When he’s not telling stories or teaching in New York City, Soman is a die-hard tennis player who never lost a first-round match for ten years. Then he started writing The School for Good and Evil. Now he loses all the time.
You can visit Soman online at www.somanchainani.net.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At first glance, Chainani's debut appears to resemble the trend-following herd. There's the secret school that sorts its students into apparently predestined categories, courtesy of J.K. Rowling. There's the knowing, slightly shocking narration, full of farts and greasy hair, borrowed from Roald Dahl via Lemony Snicket. But Chainani's story gradually takes on dimension. Sophie and Agatha are plucked from their hometown of Gavaldon, where children are voracious readers of fairy tales. A skeletal bird drops them at the School for Good and Evil, populated by the living embodiments of these tales princesses, princes, and villains in training. The girls soon discover, however, that these fledgling stereotypes have never read the stories. Sophie and Agatha are the only "Readers" in their class shunned, mocked, but also feared. While the notion that conventions of good and evil don't tell the whole truth is hardly new, exploring the middle ground moves Chainani's novel out of its own ruts and, in the process, shows readers a hyperactively imaginative way to leave black-and-white thinking behind. Ages 8 12.
Customer Reviews
Love it.
Chainani has created a world and memorable characters in a book that Disney and fairytale lovers will devour in days. Seeing Agatha and Sophie fit into their new environments is great fun, and chemistry/ development stops the characters becoming too sterotypical. It's silly, it's funny, it's exciting and very dramatic.
😎😂☺️😤😭🤨😚🥰😋😜🤓🥺🥵🤯😫😏😱🤔😼😈🙌🏻
Sophie:🔪⛓🩸💉⚔️🗡 💣Agatha:💡💎🔪🔮🛡🗝🩸 Tedros:🗝🕳🧿🗡💰🕯⏳
Andille:⚰️🩸🕳💉🩹⚔️🧨
Hester:⛓🪓🔪🗡⚔️🩸🕳
Best book ever !!
This book is amazing, in fairy tales there is always a happy ending where they get married or they fall in love, but this book is different there is such an unexpected twist that you cant help but keep reading. My fave character is Sophie the witch because not only do we share a name but things are certainly more interesting when she is around, I highly recommend this book to kids and adults.